The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-04
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsnlyGToN, ID. c., March st,

reSsion, the change Of Inauguration uay, the
new President of the Senate, ami the probable
extra session of the Senate arr matters that
have been most talked about here during the
past week.
The President is anxious 10 avoid asking
the Senate 70 remain in session alter the 4til
of Ma rch, but when asked whether he would
be ready 10 submit the important nominations
upon which lie desired its action in time TO OBJ
viate such a necessity, he replied that il was
impossible for him TO tell.
The Interstate Commerce nominations have
given him much perplexity, and now the ques-
ton has been raisel as to his Const itutional
RICH, to appoint TO newly created office which
is to filled by and with the advance and con-
sent of the Senate, while the Senate IS not in
session. 1t is held by certain Senators that
the power by which the President fills vacan-
c.cs which have occurred during a vacation can
not be applied to the filling OF a newly made
office
1t seems that Mr.. White, ex-pre>ident of
Cornell University and ex-MInster to Berlin,
was much annoyed that the correspondence be-
tween the President aud himself in relat ION to
his taking place on the Interstate Commits
sion shonld have been made known tothe pub
lie. He saws the President merely wrote him
letter asking if Ills Ia me could he considered
in making up the Commission. 1t is under
stood that NJ. White would ally have liked
to accept tie llal~ but MAS III >Silalrd Ivy
friends on { ,unilhin lfat the Commits
stone is viii fail 10 satisfy either the people or
the railroads, and that However able they may
be, they must inevitably incur the charge of
incompetency.
On the republican side of the Senate Cham
Der there are four men, each of whom would
| do credit 10 e dime museum rs The living skel
eton. They are SENATORS Ingalls,. Sherman,
| Malone and Evar,s. The longest and lankest
| of them all is the gentleman from Kansas, who
has just been sworn in As president OF the
Senate in place of Mr.. Sherman, the next al
| most attenuated menu er of the quarette--
| MIR. Ingalls, is as stiff and studied as is posi-
| BILE to imagine. and upon taking the vice pres
| ident's chair lie made a characteristic little
| speech in honor of the retiring Senator with
! which lie (,Ir Ingalls) looked well pleased.
| Beginning with burst of moG;sty he said he
must inevitably suffer Disagreement by COM
parison with the learning and parliamentary
| skill, the urbaniiy and accomplishments of his
! illus,rious predecessor, bat he would strive TO
| equal him in devotion to the duty imposed
upon him, etc, ahch all Of them promise.
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| Representatives on the day that it voted to
sustain the President 5 veto of he Pauper Fen
| sion bill. The galleries were crowded to their
utmost capacity with spectators who listened
the demonstrations of approval and disapprc-
! val
| Among the no:oble speeches md. was one
! by General Bragg. tf Wisconsin. who opened
for the Demo cratic side. He began by saying
that it was tine for the Memb ers of the House
to get out If the roseate bubble in which
| they lived in Washington, prepared for them
by claim agents, and look after the interests of
the real soldier They had drified along i'm
PEELED Ly a species of ~ mrathetic impulse
regardless OF rea son or Judgment, until the
period was reached which eliminated in the,
presentation and passage of the most scanda-
lous bills which have ever been sent to a
President for signature. The people Of the
country without regard 10 party had every
reason TO be thankful that this bill had been
placed before an Executive who had backbone
enough to meet the situation. The General
had proceeded but a short lime WhaH Gen.
Henderson. of Iowa. hoping to excite him, in
quired contempinously, ''Do you stand by the
President ," Mr.. Bragg cooly replied that
no staff commissary could excite him, he was
speaking for what he considered the soldiers
interest.
The first fashionable season which tie mis-
tress of the White House has seen in her pres
eut position, closed a week ago. One feature
of It at least. is worthy of note. OF the hmm
merable printed and spoken comments made
respecting her. she herself says there has not
been one hyper critical remark that reached
her. On tic contrary they have been compli-
mentary and kindly in the highest degree
When it is remembered that Mrs. Cleveland,
| without experience, entered upon The most
difficult social duty that a woman could at
| tempt, and that she is the youngest mistress
! that the Presidential Mansion ever had trust
ing solely to her own womanly instincts, good
breeding and good heart, it is not speaking too
strongly to say that her success has been real
| ly wonderful.
| Rufus Blodgett was on Wednesday after
noon elected United states Senator from New
| Jersey to succeed Sewell whose term expires
| to-day. The election was effected after a Sc
| ries of the most exciting scenes. The new
! Senator was born III Dorchester y. ii. in 1854.
| He " as Il member of the lower house of the